A company providing outsourced housekeeping and stewarding services to a culinary college challenged the classification assignment by its carrier, The Hartford, and the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. LCS Services …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara or his special counsel have for the second time refused to adopt an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) decision that is widely seen as averse to …
There is new a conflict between embattled California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and the Administrative law judges he has been overturning. Now, an administrative law judge (ALJ) who decided a …
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara finds more controversy about Applied Underwriters. Commissioner Lara determined California Insurance Company (CIC), an Applied Underwriters unit, violated Insurance Code sections 11734 and 11735 by using …
The question is, was a staffing company paying its employees’ wages disguised as a ‘per diem’ to avoid workers’ comp and perhaps payroll taxes? State Fund, in a March 2017 …
Administrative law judges at the California Department of Insurance in recent weeks have held three evidentiary hearings in disputes between California employers and Applied Underwriters/California Insurance Company, and the understaffed …